[extropy-chat] Depressing Thought. from Laurence of Berkeley

[Greg Burch]

The corporate form per se is no more or less problematic than any other means of holding and using property and contract rights.  The problem arises when state power is fused with the form through corporatist government policies.  Blaiming "corporations" is like blaming any other interest group that bids for and buys government favor, be they "farmers," "unions" or other organized groups that manage to garner preferential treatment from the state.  Corporations are RELATVELY weak in the EU (compared to the US), but these other organized interest groups have done just as much harm by co-opting state power for their special interests in the EU -- viz. France and their endless strikes and labor-driven politics, or the agricultural protectionism in the EU that is one of the main factors derailing free trade in the world.  The evil doesn't lie in the legal form per se, but in the sell-out of state power.

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